DVLA and roof skin swap

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Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:06 pm

Just a thought, now I have swapped from a sunroof skin to a non sunroof skin do i need to inform the DLVA or have any sort of check done before i get the car back on the road this year?
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Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:35 pm

I wouldn't bother. It's not like its been modified, it's simply had a rust repair :D
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Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:47 pm

I'd like to think so but i think on the V5 doesn't it say something about sunroof as a detail?
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Thu Feb 26, 2015 5:05 pm

I can't recall there being anything about the sunroof on the log book.
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Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:44 pm

thats a new one... woudnt bother telling the dvla anything bunch of mongs especially a sunroof?, will most likely cause you trouble and ballache in the long run, as they will probably deem your car unroadworthy til it has had a check etc, know someone that declared an engine swap, car was not allowed on the road for a couple months and had to be inspected by some vosa bod....
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Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:52 pm

Sounds like you've not had much grief with the DVLA in the past Matt? That will change if you start telling them things like this :D
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Thu Feb 26, 2015 8:31 pm

Leave it as it's is then, worth telling insurance though?
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Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:27 pm

Leave well alone.

The car has had a genuine non-sunroof skin fitted as a corrosion repair, best not to poke the hornets nest.
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Fri Feb 27, 2015 1:34 pm

What roof repair would be my answer. Like that when i bought it.

I had the same response to, s50 engine ? what do you mean ? Thats how it came. :D
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Wed May 18, 2016 9:29 am

buster wrote:What roof repair would be my answer. Like that when i bought it.

I had the same response to, s50 engine ? what do you mean ? Thats how it came. :D
Bet that went down well with your insurer...
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Wed May 18, 2016 10:17 am

I dread the day I'd have to contend with a roof skin replacement. Did you do the work yourself Appletree?
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Wed May 18, 2016 5:44 pm

Don't tell them it will turn into a nightmare. ....would you inform them if you replaced the bonnet /wings/doors /bootlid due to rust? Probably not ....I see the roof as the same! !!!
Upto you of course! !!!
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